The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


The Original Draft Of the Confeder-
ate Constitution Owned by a Lady
of Athens-Brunswick Court House
--Artesian Well Big Success-A
Man Falls Into Vat of Boiling Dye
GEORGIA
Wilcox Superior Court will convene on
Monday next
Col. John K Nightingale, of Brunswick,
lost about !, 900 bushels of rice last Satur-
day
There are already enrolled on the public
school books of Rome the names of about
400 pupils.
Brunswick's exports so far this month ex-
coed the whole month of september OF last
year by S9,7SS.
A negro on the place of Jasper Brinson,
in Scriven county, shot and probably fatally
wounded another Saturday night.
The hotels of Tallulah Falls, it is said,
will be open during the Piedmont fair, and
excursion trains will be run TO the falls.
A negro named Nose Daught, V was stabb-
ed last Sunday night on the place of James
Parker, Jr., in Scriven county, and died in
a short time.
Edward NJ. Price, one of Barlow County's
Oldest citizens, identified with its agricultu
raj pursuits, dropped dead Wednesday 1t
was caused by some affection of the heart.
A day or so ago The gin house. press and
four bales of cotton belonging TO Ben Fitz-
patrick, in Twiggs county, was destroyed
by fire, having caught from ark from
the engine. There was no - -.
At Thomson Wednesday, the case of Mr.
and Mrs F. NJ Usry VS.. the Georgia Rail
road and Banking Company, was called,
both sides announcing ready, and some of
the evidence given to the jury This is a
suit for $4,000, for personal injuries re
ceived by Mrs. Usry in alighting from the
cars at bearing.
Tailor Birdsong. of Macon, saysth report
that the negroes of Twiggs county are in
censed at the arrest of Ruffin Rhodes, the
negro who assaulted Officer johnson, and
that they are holding indignation meetings
and threatening to burn up the houses of
the farmers, is not true 1t is not known
how such a report started.
A telegram from Jesup was received at
police headquarters at Macon Wednesday
night to arrest one William Singleton, a
one-armed negro, charged with stealing
watch, valise and other articles at that
place. By o'clock Officers johnson and
Mathews had him locked up, having found
him on Fourth street. The watch was
found on his person.
Thursday evening, Sept IS, one of the lar
gest camp meetings of the year was held at
Hawkins camp grounds, in Banks county,
near Bolton. The meeting lasted until
Tuesday morning and was attended by fully
5000 people Services were held by Rev.
Mr.. Patio, of Elberton; Quillian, of White
Plains; Embry, of Harmony Grove; Frazer,
of Toccoa and others.
Mrs. Gen. T. r. r. Cobb, of Atlanta, has
the original draft of the Confederate con-
stitution as il came from the committee ap-
pointed to draft it, The paper is very
valuable one, and it is highly priced by Mrs.
Cobb. 1t is said thar the constitution which
was adopted by the Confederate Congress is
the property of Sarony, the celebrated
photographer of New York.
Tuesday morning Willis Bone at work in
the lower mill of the Athens Factory, fell
into a pot of boiling dye, and was pain
fully burned from head to foot. He was
discovered and pulled from the pot by a
colored man, who says he went under, head
and ears. DR.. Benedict attended him and
wrapped him in clothes stepped in oil
Although he is badly blistered, he is suffer-
ing but little pain.
Tuesday the home of Capt. w. /. Cor
don. who lives about three miles from
Rome, ON the Summervile road was con-
sumed by fire. The house caught from a
spark falling on the roof in the rear portion
OF the house. The family were in the front
part and knew nothing Of the fire until it
was considerably under Roadway. ID was
then too late to do anything, and it was i'm
possible TO even get out any furniture.
There is $500 insurance.
The congregation of a colored church on
Phillemma creek. some eight or ten miles
from Americas, hal baptizing near their
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rapid manner ia which the programme was
carried out it seems that thine was money!
with the officiating minister. A gentleman
who was present says that the candidates
for baptism were formed III line, single file
and that forty-seven were immersed in ex-
actly nineteen minutes by the watch. This
Is probably the fastest time on record in this
particular line.
The boiler of the cooking range at the
residence of j. A. DunwoodY, in Eineville.
a suburb of Macon, exploded Wednesday
with loud report, SCATTERING the range to
flinders and sending portions of it out
through the kitchen window. Mr. Dun
woody moved to Vineville Tuesday, and in
the removal of the range the apertures In
the boiler were closed in some way. Wednes-
day morning when the range was heated for
the breakfast, steam was generated and the
result was an explosion that did not hurt
any one, but caused considerable fright.
The slow progress being made by the
House i'll dispatching its business il awak-
enlng a feeling of much concern among the
most prominent members of that branch of
the General Assembly. A movement is be-
ing talked of, the purpose of which is to
get together about twenty-five members of
the House who are regarded as experienced
legislators, and see if something can't be
done to push the work along. One of the
members said: I'VE are doing literally
nothing, and unless we change the order OF
things nightly, there is no telling when we
will get away"
Thomaston Times: Mr.. Eugene Richard.
son, who not long ago returned from Texas
has pair of sleeve buttons that are a
treasure to those who value relics of that
kind They are made from an Usage orange
tree on which eight horse thieves were hung
at one time in Fianin county. Itseems thai
the entire gang was captured, and, as is
customary on the frontier, they received
short shift and stout ropes. They were all
hung to the first suitable tree, and some one
who knew how such things are valued cut
down the tree and made it up into walking
canes, collar and sleeve buttons and the
like
Brunswick's sixth artesian well. and th,
biggest of them all, is flowing at the rate o
over 400 gallons per minute or about 600
900 per day. This well, "A finch bore, wa.
begun by T. w. Dexter at the Oglethorp,
Hotel a little over two weeks ago. IL /,
about 500 feet deep AT 400 feet the drill
pipe was broken and a day was lost in fish
ing IL up, yet the entire work has occupied